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No Exit is a Sartre play. I'm only halfway through the article so I can't speak authoritatively to why the title was chosen. My money says this is a pun, combin
by nooron 12y ago
No Exit is a Sartre play. I'm only halfway through the article so I can't speak authoritatively to why the title was chosen. My money says this is a pun, combining the the notion of the "exit" of a startup while implying that they feel stuck in a very specific manner similar to the characters of the play. FYI this is a very facile reading of the play, and Sartre is my least favorite existentialist.
I'm not an expert on him but if you want to chat about his main squeeze and intellectual better, de Beauvoir, I'll have more to say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit
- 001sky 12y agoAn interesting hypothesis. Thank you. Near the end they discuss how "its easy to get enough money to get in over your head, but its hard to get enough money to keep afloat". That would seem in-line with the broader reading of some kind of existential limbo-land as being (at least one of) the themes. The narrative seems oddly intractable, otherwise. Perhaps 'no exit: the new normal' is more the spirit of the piece.
- rodgerd 12y agoProbably also a reference to American Psycho, where "No Exit" is the last part of the novel - itself a reference to Satre. Psycho, of course, was a critique of the money culture of 80s New York.
- joyeuse6701 12y agoDefinitely Sartre reference, These guys going through the misery of start up life has a 'myth of Sisyphus' feel to it, especially when Martino suggests that the best thing that could happen is that they miss their round of funding and are able to quit.